dasgoodshit
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You might have replied to the wrong person. Did you mean to reply to OP? I wasn't suggesting that anything should change, just that if it were (as OP was saying), then each genre would have to be analyzed separately to determine what the baseline was for a "hot" story.I fail to see why.
The red H is NOT an indication of how good your story is. It's an indication of how well people liked it. It's a popularity contest. A story with a red H is not necessarily well written. It doesn't necessarily have a sound plot. It doesn't necessarily have literary value. The red H on lit serves the exact same purpose as the "top seller" marking on Amazon. It shows readers what is popular.
And if more people vote in the I/T category, then this is because more people are looking for such stories, meaning that those stories are more popular.
Going by your logic, we'd have to lower the score requirement for a red H in LW, because there are fewer people liking Cheating and Hotwife stories, leading to well-written work receiving shit scores.
I don't think that 4.5+ means a story is good. It is an indication, sure, but nothing more.